Tribal Justice
Overview
The Center’s Tribal Justice Exchange provides technical assistance to tribal communities seeking to develop or enhance their tribal justice systems. Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Tribal Justice Exchange has three major goals:
- ensuring that tribal communities have access to training and ongoing technical assistance about problem-solving community-based practices;
- encouraging formal collaborations between traditional tribal justice systems and state and local court systems;
- identifying and disseminating best practices developed in Indian country that could help strengthen public safety initiatives elsewhere in the United States.
The Tribal Justice Exchange offers a range of services designed to meet these goals. To get help planning, implementing, or evaluating your program, click here. Click here to see upcoming grant opportunities and here to see upcoming conferences.
Recent Developments
Can Peacemaking Work Outside of Tribal Communities?
A group of practitioners and policymakers from both tribal and state courts participated in a daylong discussion in December 2011 about Indian peacemaking with an eye toward documenting introducing peacemaking in non-Indian settings. The roundtable was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance, in collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation.
Click here to read more about the discussion.
Tribal Justice Exchange Staff
Aaron Arnold, Director
(315) 266-4331
Brett Taylor, Deputy Director
(646) 386-4463
Kathryn Ford, Senior Associate
(646) 386-4181
Erika Sasson, Peacemaking Program Director
(646) 386-5922
Sarah Reckess, Deputy Director
(315) 266-4332
Kate Halleron, Office Administrator
(315) 266-4330
Gregg Roth, Associate Director
(646) 386-5918
Conferences and Training Events
For information about upcoming tribal justice conferences and training events, click here.
